EdgeNotes

I saw this new movie with my son, in an attempt to bond before he returns to university in a few weeks.– – Steve Latham – The main character, Judge Dredd, is a law-enforcer in a post-apocalypse future, set in Megacity 1, surrounded by an irradiated wasteland. The city is […]

A thirteen year old girl called Rimsha has been accused in the courts of blasphemy in Pakistan. Rimsha is from a Christian family in Mehrabadi, a poor part of Islamabad.– – Steve Latham – She was accused of burning parts of the Quran. Controversially, not only was she a minor, […]

The parents of Shafilea Ahmed were recently found guilty and imprisoned for her murder.– – Steve Latham – They at first tried to make her abandon her westernised lifestyle and stop dating boys. When that didn’t work, and she refused a forced marriage, they killed her. For them, the shame […]

This summer we’re holidaying in Scotland, among the Caringrorm mountains. Today my wife decided we should go for a bracing walk, but not too far, out of her consideration for my natural aversion to physical exercise.– – Steve Latham – So, a one hour stroll up the hill behind our […]